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Kaya Peerdeman wins ARPH Young Talent Award
Kaya Peerdeman, from the Health, Medical and
Neuropsychology unit, Leiden University, received
the ARPH Young Talent Award for her research into
the role of expectations in the experience of
physical complaints

Leiden university becomes first Dutch 'healthy
university'
Leiden University is the first Dutch university to
join the Healthy Universities international
network. Lifestyle workshops, rewards for good
behaviour and the latest interventions encourage
students and staff to live more healthily.

The research group of Andrea Evers
Psychoneurobiology of Health and Disease

The research group of Andrea Evers is based at the Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology unit of Leiden University. We study the role of psychoneurobiological factors in health, stress, and a wide range of chronic somatic symptoms and conditions, including mechanism-oriented fundamental lab research and applied translational intervention research.

We work in an interdisciplinary setting, collaborating with clinical and research departments within and outside of Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical Center.
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Our aims

Our aim is to gain insight into the psychoneurobiology of health, stress, and chronic conditions. In addition, we develop and examine ways to optimize health and health care for both patients and health care professionals.

Our methods

In our lab research, we apply multiple psychoneurobiological techniques (e.g., questionnaires, experimental tests, EEG, autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune assessments) in combination with sophisticated behavioural and physical paradigms (e.g., Quantitative Sensory Testing, conditioning). In addition, we work truly interdisciplinary in optimising health care by combining insights from different disciplines such as psychology, medicine, biology, genetics, and communication. We use these insights to develop and implement disease-generic personalised psychological or psychobiological interventions for patients with all chronic somatic complaints and conditions, for example by means of e-health.

If you are interested in volunteering or doing a research project with us, please contact us.

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